Professional Work Activities Research Articles

Comparison of the validity and reliability of three different methods used for wrist proprioception measurement

Backgroundː Early detection of loss of proprioception is essential to prevent injury and maintain professional work activities. However, although many different methods are present for wrist proprioception measurement, these methods' validity and reliability studies are quite limited. ObjectiveTo compare the validity and reliability of the goniometer, inclinometer, and joint position sense goniometer methods used in measuring wrist active joint position sense (AJPS). Methodsː Thirty-two volunteer healthy participants (64 wrists) between the ages of 19–31 (mean age:23,34 ± 3,84) were included in the study. Wrist AJPS was assessed with an isokinetic dynamometer as a reference standard in addition to an inclinometer, goniometer, and joint position sense goniometer (JPSG). Spearman's Correlation Coefficient was used for validity analysis, and Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC3,1) was used to analyze test-retest reliability. Resultsː It was found that the goniometer (p < 0.001, r = 0.529) is a moderately valid method to assess active wrist joint position sense. The JPSG (p < 0.001, r = 0.432) and inclinometer (p = 0.005, r = 0.350) have weak validity. According to the results of ICC3,1 analysis, the goniometer (p < 0.001, ICC3,1 = 0.422) and JPSG (p < 0.001, ICC3,1 = 0.369) were found to have poor reliability in assessing wrist AJPS, and the inclinometer (p = 0,183, ICC3,1 = 0,114) was not found as a reliable method. Conclusionsː Our results suggest that the JPSG and inclinometer should not be used in the wrist active joint position sense evaluation because of weak validity and poor reliability. The goniometer can be used in clinics and academic research to evaluate wrist joint position sense if the rater lacks a reliable and valid measurement tool.

Decision Support System For The Determination Of Field Work Practice Results In Students Using The Moora Method (Case Study : Pt. Telekomunikasi Binjai)

PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia Binjai Branch is an information and communication company as well as a complete telecommunications service and network provider in Indonesia. Acceptance of students to carry out Field Work Practices (PKL) is one of the important goals for companies to introduce the world of telecommunications in Binjai City. Street vendors are student activities directly in professional work activities at an institution, company or institution within a certain period of time in accordance with the curriculum. And to overcome these problems we need a method that can predict the number of new installations. After carrying out the Field Work Practice (PKL) in the company, students are entitled to get the results of the activities that have been carried out during the PKL. The number of students who carry out PKL in the company makes it difficult for office employees to provide PKL results from each of the existing students. Based on the results of research that has been done at PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia Binjai Branch, the process of assigning value to the results of street vendors activities is done manually. In this study a Decision Support System (DSS) will be built using the Multi-Objective Optimization On The Basis Of Ratio Analysis (MOORA) method which is a method that has a calculation with a minimum and very simple calculation. The system is designed with the PHP programming language and MySQL database, after processing the 15 inputted data, it is found that A15 (Wiratana Sanjaya) is in the first rank. With these results it was also concluded that A15 became a student with the best Field Work Practice results at PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia Binjai Branch.&#x0D;

Öğretmenlerin "Mesleki Çalışma Etkinlikleri" Kavramına Yönelik Metaforik Algılari

The present study aims to determine the perceptions of teachers regarding the concept of vocational work activities through metaphors. The study was designed as a qualitative phenomenological study. The study group consisted of 83 teachers who received vocational training in 5 different schools (primary-secondary schools) in the central districts of Kayseri at the end of the 2018-2019 academic year. The data were collected in the year-end vocational working activities. Content analysis was used for data analysis. The teachers who participated in the study developed 83 metaphors, 51 of which were different. The metaphors developed by teachers regarding the concept of professional work activities were evaluated in 8 categories. These were determined as; As Useful and Necessary Applications, As Unnecessary Applications, As an Application that Gains Importance According to the Person, As an Application where Participation is Obligatory, As Application Providing Integration, As an Application that Brings Change and Innovation, As a Relaxing Applications and As an Application Providing Guidance.&#x0D; In conclusion, it is thought that the year-end vocational working activities contributed to the professional and social development of the teachers, guided them throughout the new academic year, and allowed them to renew themselves, while they did not serve their purpose and were perceived as boring and useless for teachers when not conducted on a voluntary basis.

Promoting Expertise Through Simulation (PETS): A conceptual framework

Questioning how and why simulations can be suitable for supporting intraindividual learning and expertise development motivated this study. We depart from an empirically well supported cognitive perspective of expertise that focusses on cognitive adaptations through long-term engagement with professional work activities. The strength of simulation learning is seen in its multiple explanatory base, which is used to build the framework PETS (Promoting Expertise Through Simulation). The PETS model specifically addresses how simulations can contribute to intraindividual knowledge restructuring through case processing and learner-tailored guidance of a trainer supporting the thorough engagement in deliberate practice activities to go beyond automatization. Preparation, briefing, repetitive practice opportunities, and debriefing are phases of instructional embedding in simulation learning for which the PETS model identifies important prerequisites to enhance understanding of what works for whom under which conditions and why during expertise development.

LEITURAS DA VIOLÊNCIA ESCOLAR PERANTE O PROJETO CONTEMPORÂNEO DE EDUCAÇÃO DE DELORS

Delors’ report (1988) has a worldwide proposal for schools to fulfill a missiono f adapting to four pillars: learning to know, learning to do, learning to live together and learning to be. From Delors’ report, here called the contemporary education project, it can be observed that the new current school education settings have been preparing young people and adolescents for the job market and to develop skills for coexistence, group and teamwork, to later develop these skills along with professional work activities. It is convenient to analyze this generalist proposal and its impacts in Brazil, as well as whether this report would be directly related to school violence. Therefore, this essay proposes to critically reflect on it based on psychology and two techniques (listening and working with groups) that the psychologist has for a comparative analysis of models.

REMOTE EMPLOYMENT AS A FACTOR IN THE TRANSFORMATION OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT DURING AND AFTER THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

The COVID-19 crisis significantly transformed approaches to workplace organization, employment, forms and technologies of professional work activities, causing significant changes in systemic human resource management. A huge number of businesses and organizations found themselves facing the need to move their employees to out-of-office employment. The practice of working remotely, which has become a necessity for many employers in the period since March 2020, has necessitated the transformation of human resource management and personnel management, since remote employment forms new features not only in the performance of work, but also in the provision of the workplace, work safety, training of personnel, etc. Which means that the whole range of personnel work should be adapted to the remote format. The purpose of the presented work is to consider the prospects of reforming approaches to personnel management through indicators of remote employment, massively prevalent during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Development of a GMC aligned curriculum for internal medicine including a qualitative study of the acceptability of ‘capabilities in practice’ as a curriculum model

The Shape of Training review and the General Medical Council (GMC) requirements in demonstrating generic professional capabilities were major drivers for the Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians Training Board (JRCPTB) to develop the new internal medicine curriculum. In particular, the GMC required progression to a more outcomes-based curriculum. The present curricula for physician training are based on demonstrating a large number of individual competencies that are assessed by a variety of different methods. It was felt that current system was overwhelming and had become a 'tick box' exercise. The new curriculum is based on a much smaller number of outcomes, called capabilities in practice, which reflect the key professional work activities of a fully trained physician. The aim is to re-emphasise the role of professional judgement in 'trusting' the work a trainee does and thus make assessment more realistic and meaningful for both trainees and trainers. The proof of concept study explored the feasibility of using this outcomes-based model of assessment in a UK NHS setting. The learning from the study has enabled us to make significant changes to the internal medicine curriculum. The GMC has recently approved the curriculum and the JRCPTB is implementing the programme from August 2019.

Ethno-cultural and social distinctiveness of the linguistic worldview of dialect speakers

The paper addresses the interaction of linguistic and extralinguistic factors in describing the linguistic worldview. Necessity of studying Russian folk dialects in order to identify the main features of the ethnic culture and social specificity of the Russian people living in the territory of Mordovia is substantiated. The object of the research are numerous dialect verbs and phraseological units belonging to the group denoting professional work activities. On the basis of semantic analysis it is shown that linguistic units representing work and labour in the linguistic consciousness of a dialect speaker convey traditional folk perception of reality and the specificity of the national character of the Russian people. The research has led us to the conclusion that dialect vocabulary and phraseology are one of the means of acquiring knowledge of life in various aspects by the dialect speaker; it allows reconstruction of the relevant part of the national linguistic worldview.

Professional Efficiencies for Diagnostic Imaging Services Rendered by Different Physicians: Analysis of Recent Medicare Multiple Procedure Payment Reduction Policy

The aim of this study was to quantify potential physician work efficiencies and appropriate multiple procedure payment reductions for different same-session diagnostic imaging studies interpreted by different physicians in the same group practice. Medicare Resource-Based Relative Value Scale data were analyzed to determine the relative contributions of various preservice, intraservice, and postservice physician diagnostic imaging work activities. An expert panel quantified potential duplications in professional work activities when separate examinations were performed during the same session by different physicians within the same group practice. Maximum potential work duplications for various imaging modalities were calculated and compared with those used as the basis of CMS payment policy. No potential intraservice work duplication was identified when different examination interpretations were rendered by different physicians in the same group practice. When multiple interpretations within the same modality were rendered by different physicians, maximum potential duplicated preservice and postservice activities ranged from 5% (radiography, fluoroscopy, and nuclear medicine) to 13.6% (CT). Maximum mean potential duplicated work relative value units ranged from 0.0049 (radiography and fluoroscopy) to 0.0413 (CT). This equates to overall potential total work reductions ranging from 1.39% (nuclear medicine) to 2.73% (CT). Across all modalities, this corresponds to maximum Medicare professional component physician fee reductions of 1.23 ± 0.38% (range, 0.95%-1.87%) for services within the same modality, much less than an order of magnitude smaller than those implemented by CMS. For services from different modalities, potential duplications were too small to quantify. Although potential efficiencies exist in physician preservice and postservice work when same-session, same-modality imaging services are rendered by different physicians in the same group practice, these are relatively minuscule and have been grossly overestimated by current CMS payment policy. Greater transparency and methodologic rigor in government payment policy development are warranted.

Combined methods, thick descriptions: Languages of collaboration on Github

AbstractLike many professional work activities in this age of ubiquitous computing and high‐speed internet connections, computer programming and software development are increasingly mediated by systems with ‘social media’ features like profiles, avatars, ‘liking’, and commenting capabilities. When working on shared tasks, programmers have effectively leveraged these capabilities to overcome differences in time and location while simultaneously using collaborative web applications, such as version control repositories like SCM or ‘git’ systems to work together more efficiently. Here we present preliminary findings from a project investigating patterns of collaboration on the social coding platform Github. We've used a research method that combines the use of statistical approaches from social network analysis (SNA) and traditional qualitative case study construction. Our results show that this method is useful in qualitatively explaining the topology of a collaborative network, especially the formation of cliques that have been identified using traditional SNA metrics.

비만 여성의 기성복 바지 착용실태 및 선호 디자인

This study details the actual wearing conditions and favored design of ready-made pants for obese women, particularly for those in their twenties and thirties. The actual problems that customers feel and the preferred design of pants were suggested based on the survey and from the standpoint of consumers. The findings of the survey are as follows. The actual wearing conditions in the survey, 80.5% like wearing pants. The main reason to prefer pants is that pants are more convenient for social or professional work activities. The main reason to avoid wearing pants is that the pants (in general) do not mask an obese body shape. The most favored was Denim/Elastic and the second most favored was Cotton/Elastic from the survey. On average, elastic materials are preferred over non-elastic materials. The reason was the comfort in wearing and convenience in social or professional activities that could mask obesity. In terms of the style, the most favored was blue jeans and the second favored was semi-formal. A straight-silhouette is the most favored as it was able to help mask obesity. The most favored position for the waistline is 4 cm lower than the natural waistline. The most favored pant length is where the pants slightly touch the floor when they stand with shoes on. For obese women the pants development that covers the weak points of the body shape giving, which is comfortable and active are desired.

The Geriatric Psychiatry Workforce in 2002: Analysis From the 2002 National Survey of Psychiatric Practice

Using the 2002 National Survey of Psychiatric Practice (NSPP), authors update demographic and professional work activities of a nationally representative sample of the psychiatric workforce who treat geriatric patients. The sampling frame for the 2002 NSPP used the American Medical Association's Masterfile of Physicians. Professional, demographic, and patient data are compared between general and self-reported geriatric psychiatrists. Authors also present detailed analyses comparing high geriatric providers (HGPs; geriatric caseloads >20%), and board-certified geriatric psychiatrists (BCGPs). The proportion of HGPs in the 2002 NSPP was 26.0% of all respondents and was 28.1% among American Psychiatric Association (APA)-member respondents. Among the APA-member psychiatrists, this reflected a 55% increase from the 1996 NSPP. Of HGPs, 31.0% were certified in geriatric psychiatry. As compared with general psychiatrists, proportionally fewer men and American medical-school graduates were self-reported geriatric psychiatrists. Geriatric psychiatrists saw nearly three times as many geriatric patients and five times as many dementia patients as did their generalist counterparts. Mood-disorder patients were the largest treatment group, however. Investigators observed no significant differences in professional and practice characteristics between HGPs and BCGPs. About 1 in 4 psychiatrists in the 2002 survey are HGPs. Geriatric psychiatrists treat proportionally more geriatric patients than do generalists, but they do not have exclusively geriatric practices. The similarities between HGPs and BCGPs raise issues about the incentives for geriatric psychiatry certification, but not the need to train subspecialists to serve as faculty and community resources.

The Geriatric Psychiatry Workforce in 2002: Analysis From the 2002 National Survey of Psychiatric Practice

Using the 2002 National Survey of Psychiatric Practice (NSPP), authors update demographic and professional work activities of a nationally representative sample of the psychiatric workforce who treat geriatric patients.The sampling frame for the 2002 NSPP used the American Medical Association's Masterfile of Physicians. Professional, demographic, and patient data are compared between general and self-reported geriatric psychiatrists. Authors also present detailed analyses comparing high geriatric providers (HGPs; geriatric caseloads >20%), and board-certified geriatric psychiatrists (BCGPs).The proportion of HGPs in the 2002 NSPP was 26.0% of all respondents and was 28.1% among American Psychiatric Association (APA)-member respondents. Among the APA-member psychiatrists, this reflected a 55% increase from the 1996 NSPP. Of HGPs, 31.0% were certified in geriatric psychiatry. As compared with general psychiatrists, proportionally fewer men and American medical-school graduates were self-reported geriatric psychiatrists. Geriatric psychiatrists saw nearly three times as many geriatric patients and five times as many dementia patients as did their generalist counterparts. Mood-disorder patients were the largest treatment group, however. Investigators observed no significant differences in professional and practice characteristics between HGPs and BCGPs.About 1 in 4 psychiatrists in the 2002 survey are HGPs. Geriatric psychiatrists treat proportionally more geriatric patients than do generalists, but they do not have exclusively geriatric practices. The similarities between HGPs and BCGPs raise issues about the incentives for geriatric psychiatry certification, but not the need to train subspecialists to serve as faculty and community resources.